Jalandhar

Jalandhar, formerly Jullundur, is a city in the northwestern India state of Punjab. The oldest city in Punjab and one of the oldest in the country, Jalandhar has seen rapid urbanization and development.

Area: 3,401 km²
Population: 861,025 (2015)

Jalandhar is the oldest city in Punjab and one of the oldest in the country, Jalandhar has seen rapid urbanization and developed into a highly industrialised center of commercial activity in recent years. Jalandhar was the capital of Punjab from India’s independence (1947) until Chandigarh was built in 1953. On the Grand Trunk Road, Jalandhar is a major rail and road junction and is 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh. The city was known as Jullundur in British India.

Jalandhar University

DAV University, Jalandhar is promoted by DAV College Managing Committee which is India’s single largest non-government educational organization managing more than 800 institutions in the country. It has been providing students with an excellent education in modern academic environment.

The Jalandhar University traces its roots to the legacy that has been reforming and redefining India’s educational scenario for 130 years. The Jalandhar University has been established by a Legislative Act of the Punjab Government and empowered to confer degrees under Section 22 of the UGC Act 1956.

Career Counselling and Placement Cell in Jalandhar

TRAINING & PLACEMENT CELL

The College in Jalandhar has a Training & Placement Cell to arrange career counselling, training and placement activities. The Training and Placement cell in Jalandhar provides support for placement of Final year students of UG and PG Classes. The support services that it offers are in the form of arranging campus interviews, grooming students to face the final test of their knowledge and arranging Guest lectures, workshops, seminars for career counselling as well as make efforts to provide practical training to the students.

This cell was established in 2006 under the Deanship of Sh. C.B.Gaur, Associate Professor, PG Department of Commerce and Management Studies. In 2008, Sh. Rajiv Sharma, Associate Professor, PG Department of Commerce and Management Studies took over the charge of this department.  Presently it is managed by a very dedicated and devoted team comprising Sh.V.K.Sareen, Associate Professor, Post Graduate Department of Commerce, Dean, Sh.Nischay Bahl, Sh.Vishal Sharma, Sh.Manav Aggarwal and Sh. Rajeev Puri as members.

Motto:

The Motto is loud and clear – “Hey students! You are assets, the higher you go, the higher goes your alma-mater!” 

Activities: Training and Placement Cell arranged various activities like

• Placement Drives.
• Personality Development Programmes.
• Communication Skill Enhancing Programmes.
• Personal Interview skills.
• Aptitude Tests.
• Mock Group discussions.

Placements:

Placement cell is pro-active in arranging Campus placement drives by inviting reputed enterprises from the corporate world like Infosys, Genpact, IBM-Daksh, WNS, HDFC Bank, ICICI Prudential Insurance etc. The Training & Placement cell has been instrumental in placing more than 1500 brilliant students with the visiting companies since 2008 which speaks volumes about the energy, initiative and enthusiasm of the entire team of placement cell.

In all, 1525 candidates have been selected by the visiting Companies.

The experienced Recruitment/Placements team offers Manpower consultancy to the Candidates of Jalandhar and all over the country and 2 overseas countries. The consultancy activities, particularly outside the University, have strengthened the desire to apply recent methods amongst potential users in HR industry, medicine and other fields. HR departments and research institutes approach the Recruitment/Placements/HR team for help to fulfil the Manpower requirement.

Many engineering firms around Jalandhar are aware of the Manpower consultancy services available in the Recruitment/Placements firm and approach it for help on their own. In the last 21 years, the Consultancy agency has helped a number of industrial units in connection with their Recruitment/Placements, Manpower and HR products. There is a lot of Consultancy demand in the overseas as well.

The role of the Career Counselling and Placements Cell is to counsel the candidates, target the requirement and provide them the Recruitment/Placements, Manpower and HR products. We also impart training on soft skill. Many times, a complexity in such a Manpower consultancy reaches the scale of a research work. The industrial units are now aware of how much they can save or can earn more by approaching the Recruitment/HR firm. Sometimes, a consultancy activity results in fulfilling the recruitment/Placements and Manpower of the HR department.